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what flavor wordpress and what setup on your server?

That’s cool someone took the time to write a book on Buddypress. Unfortunately there is the lag time with printing paper. I like the model used by the guys who did “Digging into WordPress”.

You can get a print copy but you also get a digital download with a lifetime (what ever that will mean) of updates. What ever the vehicle for the PDF book is that they used I don’t know but it is good and easy to use. I really like having it and look to it before Googling an answer (time suck).

For regular WordPress, you need at a minimum BP 1.2-RC2. 1.1.3 doesn’t work with regular WordPress, only the MU version

this is too happening with me if u just remove the buddypress plugin then wordpress is works fine

speaking of book releases, WordPress Bible by Aaron Brazell with Mark Jaquith came out yesterday — now that’s a keeper.

Yeah, you can do that. It will take some work. Just add in all the profile fields you’d like to use for the ‘business listing’ and then display those fields in a directory of sorts using custom template files. Or you could style up a member ‘blog’ theme that is formatted as a ‘listing’ with maybe some edit in place ajax functionality that’ll allow a member to enter their business info and restricts them from doing anything else. That way you could use sitewide queries to build a directory of these ‘listings’. I can’t say there’s a cut and paste sorta plugin to achieve this, but the best place to start would be here and here.

interesting? you can use sunrise.php to support multiple domains with one user table, but I’m not sure how site_url() (BuddyPress) would react to it. Search for wpmuguru. He’s really good with configuring multiple domains/databases on multi-user. It would be interesting to test and with enough custom code, you could make almost anything happen

ps.. you should mark the topic as resolved since this really isn’t a direct support question.

Using WPMU 2.9.1.1, BP trunk installed in a subdirectory and a fresh install of BP Links bleeding, I get a wordpress “Page Not Found” for the links directory.

Also, if the “BP Links” settings menu can reside under the main BuddyPress menu, that would be great.

Thanks for releasing a beta!

With mine activated here is what happens:

1. All activity is filtered/stream is now empty
2. Links item in top menu results in a 302 redirect to the document root
3. Pasting a link in the activity text area has no effect.

Buddypress: trunk

Wordpress: 2.9.1

Buddypress Links 0.3-beta

Child theme (bp-default parent) that alters headers.php, sidebar.php, index.php, footer.php

Thanks!!

Erm.

Since you didn’t provide ANY version numbers; I’m guessing you are trying to run BuddyPress 1.1.3 on WordPress?

@Andy. Yup. It makes sense to me now that I’ve figured it out. After your instructions didn’t work as expected, I went back to basics and read the codex page about “Reading Settings” and under the “Front Page” bullet near the bottom of the page it says “If you would like to create a static home page template file, do not name it home.php”. Ding ding ding! Light bulb. So I put two and two together and finally figured it out.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Reading_SubPanel

Glad I’m not crazy after all. Sorry. I know my additions to this post were very confusing and probably a little frustrating. And thanks again Andy! Although your instructions didn’t work quite as expected because I had that home.php file, at least I knew I was on the right track! You’re a lifesaver.

To be honest the way it is now is the way every WordPress theme designer is used to. It’s the way WordPress does it natively. Using home.php is actually not the best idea since it overrides all settings – as we found out in the end.

Andy’s instructions didn’t work because I still had a template named home.php for my homepage and it was taking over control of my posts page even when I had manually assigned it to my custom “Blog” page and template.

If anyone cares (LOL)… here’s the solution to having a separate front page and posts page that can both use a full paginated result set from the database.

1. Make a template for your homepage with a filename OTHER than “home.php” or “index.php”. I used “homepage.php”.

2. At the top of this file add <?php /* Template Name: Home */ ?>

3. Make a WordPress Page called “Home” and assign it to the template you just made (i.e. “Home”).

4. Make a WordPress Page called “Blog” and leave it assigned to the default template (which will be index.php).

5. In the Reading Settings switch to static mode and set the Front Page to “Home” and the Posts Page to “Blog”.

Thanks for the help guys. That was a mind bender. Just seemed easier (from a development point of view) when home.php and index.php defaulted to “/” and “/blog/”

Now I think I need a drink. LOL :o)

I used this plugin for a one-time, scary users import operation. Not sure if that’s helpful for your issue.

The WP/WPMU/BP members database is a patchwork designed to be as incompatible as possible with whatever else you might dream of using.

This is how it’s supposed to work. Blogs are just normal WordPress blogs where users can select any WordPress theme you provide.

This is an old thread, it’s waaaaay out of date now, please start a new one. You can use the group extension API to do this. Or you can try this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-member-map/

OK ~ i was able to get the bp 1.2 default running perfectly using a subdirectory install with the current wp trunk I am using multi-site ~ with only one modification –

Make sure your rewrite base for .htaccess is correct in your root and these are also correct.

..and then add this to you wp-config pointing to your subdirectory wp-content

define( 'WP_CONTENT_URL', 'http://127.0.0.1/~david/test/whatever_your_subdirectory_is/wp-content');